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This is one problem of watching videos directly from reddit and not reading the description on YouTube. When I first saw this, I also thought it was extremely eurocentric, but then I read this:

The data comes from the wikipedia article, List of Battles.
Most of the activity seems to happen in Europe, this is because the english wikipedia was used. In a future release of this video I will merge wikipedias in different languages to solve this bias.

So maybe it's the wikipedia article that is eurocentric/incomplete, but the author should have put that as an annotation in the beginning, because everyone knows no one reads the descriptions on youtube (unfortunately).

Eh, he titled it "World Battleground" while knowing full well that it was a very biased subset of said battleground. He should have used a less grandiose title or waited until his compilation could live up to its title.

I would state that any wars that happened between tribes of Native Americans (and let's be real, they probably happened) aren't going to be included in any video, simply because there is no written account. There isn't even an accurate oral account. We simply won't ever know.

This animation shows all important battles that took place over the last ten centuries. The sizes of the explosions and labels are proportional to the number of casualties. The music is "Ride Of The Valkyries" by Richard Wagner. The data comes from the wikipedia article, List of Battles.
Most of the activity seems to happen in Europe, this is because the english wikipedia was used. In a future release of this video I will merge wikipedias in different languages to solve this bias.

Ok. The first world war was started by Franz Ferdinand, a Scottish rock group, apparently Germany didn't like their music but France and The UK were like "Stfu Germany you like tubas and slapping each others knees" so Germany got pissed and started shooting, everyone else started and then America who was sleeping because it had just blown all it's money on booze woke up in a drunken stupor and joined in. Everyone got bored after a while and gave up.

The second world war was started by Adolf Hitler because he was pissed off that the Jews were secretly smuggling in Franz Ferdinand albums from Poland, so logically he attacked Poland because fuck you. Russia tried to save the albums but accidentally broke half of Poland in the process. Once again France and The UK were like "Holy fuck Germany! That's not cool!" but Germany told them to fuck off and kicked them out of Café Europe. They then spent years throwing rocks and dead cats at each other over the English Channel. Meanwhile, Japan was fucking pissed because America was mooning them from a small island in the Pacific ocean so they went over there and kicked America in the balls. This sent America batshit crazy and it started beating the fuck out of Japan, sending more rocks and cats to The UK and generally getting roided the fuck up. Eventually The UK, France, America and just about everyone else beat Germany and Japan, but not before America and Russia decided to have the worlds longest staring competition.

This is wrong, though. Germany didn't start WW1. Germany DID like Franz Ferdinand's music but the Serbians managed to kill off their publishing house, thus ending the band. Astro-Hungry, Germany's ally, made most of the ticket money FF were bringing in, and were quite miffed. So miffed, in fact, that they invaded Serbia. Germany, as an ally, joined them.

Russia came in to back up its little buddy Serbia and France decided to start kicking Germany and Astro-Hungry in the shins. England, being the jolly good sport they are, decided to jump in as well.

The United States of New Guy on the Block jumped in as well, but only when the Germans started telling all the Mexican gardeners that they could keep the land up north if they kicked the gringos out.

Italy then hopped in because they were tired of looking like a boot and hoped the allies would let them change their borders a bit if they threw a few punches at Astro-Hungry.

The Ottomans jumped in as everyone else was doing it and it seemed like fun.

As with all drunken brawls, it all started with a few idiots who don't represent the whole audience throwing glass bottles and sharp things on stage.

Also, the scale seemed to be off. Battles in the American Civil War were pretty enormous -- definitely needed more than those tiny explosions, especially when compared to some very modern conflicts that got much larger explosions.

In fact, they seemed to get the same size explosion as Revolutionary and pre-revolutionary battles in the Americas, which would have been much smaller.

... You know, I understand they missed out a bunch of wars (as others have pointed out) but how is it they decided to make this movie and release a low quality cut? You can't read most of the names that pop up!

Love the idea of there being no war in America until Europeans took over it. We're ignoring millennia of territorial disputes between native americans and the fact that the Aztecs regularly did shit like declare war on their neighbors just so they'd have more hearts to offer as food to their gods to do shit like stop famines. Seriously, look up the Flower Wars.

Potentially cool video, however it missed a metric fuck ton of battles and war. Would've been better titled European Battleground and just zoomed in on the greater Euro-continent. Then, It would have been quite a neat video to watch.

I imagine that despite the best intentions of the person who made this to document every single battle to every single war turned out to be a bigger project than they could chew. Let us all take a step back, appreciate this cool video, and if we so choose to undertake the monumental task of documenting every single war over the past 1,000 years do so.

This would be great if it was actually matched up using broader range of historical statistics. Matching it up with the Correlates of War project from Penn State and Michigan would be much more comprehensive, for instance.

What the fuck, the Mongols were completed ignored? They may have changed global climate with the numbers they killed. They were awesome, by the way. Also, I'm pretty sure N and S America had a few wars pre-Columbus.